Luciano Rodriguez

Teacher Name
Strange Fruit - Lyinching
& Lesson Plan Title:

TEKS §113.41. 11th Grade U.S. History (c)(3)(B)

Analyze social issues affecting…minorities…

Students will…
Compare a textbook excerpt and visual primary sources to relate a more complete
Learning Objectives:
history of the years between 1880 to 1910, which books often tend to ignore and
omit certain truths.

What are the differences between the textbook’s way of describing lynching, versus
the way in which the images and postcards portray it?
Essential Question(s):
Since books often omit this term, what is your own definition of lynching?

What are your thoughts about the reasons for lynching?

 Online History Book – Open Stax CNX Chapter 19.2 – The African American
Great Migration and New European Immigration.
https://cnx.org/contents/p7ovuIkl@9.21:FFyiTJpy@9/19-2-The-African-
American-Great-Migration-and-New-European-Immigration
 Images of Lynching.
Resources/Materials:  Note cards used for entrance ticket.
 Worksheets (Questions and Reasons of Lynching)
 Youtube video – Strange Fruit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c52ElU5tQNo

Time: 3
Entrance ticket: what is your favorite food and why?
minutes

Watch video “Strange Fruit”

Procedure: Time: 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c52ElU5tQNo.
minutes
Start on 0:018 – 01:00. Skip to 1:14 – 01:57

Read Textbook and Reasons for Lynching. Show them images of

Time: 12
lynching.
minutes
 Time: 13
Students will answer worksheet individually and discuss answers as a
minutes
classroom.

Time: 0
Assessment: Students submit worksheet completed during class period
min